The Sun. — London, England, 1826-12-11 00:00:00

SPIRIT orTirn PI.TIILIC JOURNALS. The - The 'effort: which was node an Thursday night, in the . . }louse of Commons, to bring into contempt a petition by ' Which grave and weighty charges were preferred against a Member ofParliairent, because it was ,signed by only four 'persons; is' certainly a novel practice. When an innocent . w a n J 4 a ccused of Buy , thing eriminitl before a competent tribunal,: We should think the course which his. conscious. ..innocence ..would dictate, would be to refute the charges on, theirs own.merits, rather than to. attempt any defence on the ground, of: the limited, number; of :persons by whom . t hey have been•preferred.', We cannot say, until the evi dentediall have been gone through on both sides, whether I'Mr.. l, Brogden has or hes not it good and Suilieient• ansWer to4lle specific' charge of malversation, arising out cif his conned - ion with the Arigta Mining Compaq ; but whe-': thehe leis or has eot, the motion which Mr. Martin made at Thiirstley night; accompanied as it was by reflections upon the motives of the petitioners, whoft he prejudged is false aociisers, because they were few can do Mr. Broden no service. A great proportion Of t he p ersons tried,in this country, 'on. charges affecting their liberty or . . ,life, are phut to that peril on the original, accusation .of tt.eingle prosecutor.: Let us for a moment consider is eliminatory petition received by Parliament in the light . of an indictment in a Court of Law—the question, in one ease as.. well as the other, to be tried iss-swhether the olle- • wations.ate true, not whether they have been atiVaneed by a greater or le'' nuinber of perma. A statement false in! its own nature, is not the leis false because it may have, been repeated by dthaniand moutha—tor is the truth the less true, on the ground that it has only been uttered by as `single individual. If but one person presented a . petitioni ,to, the house of Conimens, complaining of dishonourabie ; cOncluct in ate of its . Members--...and especially if thet person were a candidates for station, of dignity and profit in , the llotete, it would be the duty of so high mid Ins- , nourable a body 411' the Commons-of England to examisie. into the matter, and Protect their association, not only, from the intrusion of guilt, s but from the taint of sits , e pieitm--4ut,• says Mr. Martin, " out of thousands of -,,h at ,h o lda t ~ r obbed - and injured in . the Arigna Miningi, CtsinponY, was it 'to be SuppOsed that only - four could; be found to prefer (*vie:hits ?" We can tell '• Mr. : - Martitt that if - only one individual , could, be kiln& „so, prefer such a. complaint, the linuSe was bound to inquire into it. We .have known persons ourselves to be " rabbed and injure! by Joint Stock Bubbles, whol are very lot h to come forward and state their just! emnplalute - publicly, through the false shame of incurring, the - charge ' , of weakness and- , folly for allowing theml Welyes :to be tricked out• of their money by the absurt ' inventions and swindling statements of bubblemanufeetn reia. We dotot know whether this) is the ease or not witl respect to the 'Shareholders of the Arigna IViining Con' pans. We argue on the general principle—and, we sa it would be, it most dangerous; precedent, and destrectiv :of the subject's right of petitioning, for Parliament tai. declare that it would institute no inquiry into the condtid 'of any of its Members When petitioned for justice by oulv a single individual. We will suppose a case, whielt•lia4 more than once occurred, and may often occur againsH we, will suppose that a Weir of 'great 'lnfluence anti conned tions, and .a. Member of Parliament should, at a' laurel time . I.lefratul it number of individuals, hat on the 'thin( ,being. discovered, and txpostire thl'eatetted,.iiliotild exercise the influence of his money fuel coloseetions to purehaSe i otil the , accusation. It taiga so happen that all. the persoiii4 'tiefmtuled,• extsepLone; would he willing to reeeive thtl compensation and be silent, and that one---a sturdy Elie lishman of the old Sehool—svoulti scorn the bribe, defy the ' power of his adversary,' end demand justice of the Legislai ture, and nothing Flee: Now let,lis suppose Mr. Martin t, motion pri 'Tlitreday tight 'to .have* :been carried, unithi ti i kaOß.he to have been admitted es a felt one, a preeeden ' 17;t e tWriby estribliabed, to cut oft' this one lionet44 ,„altd inflexible ,Esiglistiman front any redreSs by petitioH ; for it fOut persots are tots feW to exercise that privilege' ii -.Tirldietitit4 of their rights, tow meets lest elaiiii wl, I 114 I .;1191itary„iudiyi4w4,. , .4vp to, exerciSe it ? Besides, its tli caree of Mr. Brogden, it. is not Rommel, a question l..ei r weett him and the individuals signieg the petition, as between Mr. firogden end the public at huge. • It is, ouly fiat,: at the saniitime, to observe, that it does not' appear , fesesi what passed, that Mr. firogden anthorieed Mr. Martin! td Ohilt, ti e course which he did, There 'are some:persani Whohlive a wily 'Of Serving their friends peculiar to them selves, and show how much injury eats be thme Withott rliplatieg.--,4fOrniiig Herald. ' 1 . ;,11 1 at the - charges to juries in Liliel cases, the ,JudgerS ,ifaisas t lait to profess themselves friendly to the Liberty or the Wefts, and'declare that they may' wisli to see its . •lieesei tistemess.curbed.. When, however, they come to [nation; lars-'-savhen they let us see what their well-regulated li betty is, we may apply to it the hutnoromideSOption - givee by ileaunutechais it The Alarriage of Figaro :—" I I,vl told, that during my economical retreat , a s+s stem of Mien fk lie sale of ,productions; extending even to those of the Press, had heel' established ; end that provided in my writt. iegs'lapoke neither of authority, nor of religion, nor .o .ptiolitics,, mit', of morals,' :tor of persons' in ' piece , no r , o *dieit . posseasted of influence, tior,of • the opera, nor; the outer spectacles, nor of persona, of consequence, I might 141a:every thing - freely. 'file truth is, that the truly way to escape the English Libel Law is tot to write; and .four} nalista exist not under the. securityt oflaw, but et the disk 'N-erition , of-the community. There is lust. a. Newspaper pub. 'il,leil in London which would, not , furnish grounds for l'" - ' 4 'esiS of ' actions mid indictments ; and it , is only - he. "4,141. - ~flat4e s,.ytliets can 'lever be , certainly anticipated, and a ,tellstra.sohicets it proseeutor to a heavy outlay, that,' an exibtg u io ver ;,,, )10k at once' clapped oil the periodield •,i''reloiii If, ti's Ju'Nea were freed from the restraint's of :in. iriee,taiid resaisted basis present doctrines, the Press could eisek4sliefor a month, • lit that Case;, no doubt, it r WOlll4 IlieOrel liai l to alter Abe Aotiw,; fOr..we elo not think .ste All .`'of - the people of this emintry; sot to suppose they 4vOtild Sidomit to the Lase •:for . any length of., 60'0. 4 were it: consistently tarried into execution. Let us only, tef.qtr,jitst'etti!e; consider the extent, to which Chief Berm 0 teinuttler svent its the vase against 7'he Timer, tried the U l, tat hrif day in the C'ourt of Exchequer. The libels in .that t.ease Apia:area first in l'he SOlopian JournOl, whence' they :sittirii.,eatiisiti, iota half the ilewspapers of the kingdom.-14 , evy- damage's .Wkre obteined front The Picwie,gbani detts . e.et, sit' . Of 'the papers into which they were c op ie d . Tii4Stalopiriii .hat rnal waft next 'prosecuted; hut though -the original publieetion was in that paper; the *Tiny gave slight damages. These two papers appeared in the neigls. boorhood of the parties effected , by the paragraphs, and bed Askew the means of verifying the stateolonm The p a pers at a distatwe .which. copied them necessarily' took tbern pis the stiebotity cif the local press; and to extend the responsibility of what they copy from distant i s • I aper , .i., to sa y, that they shall he open - may lii local intelligence, end titter a :top shall thereby he put to that rapid eireula : sires of intelligence from one end' of the kingdom to the , other, the ',source afsuch inestimable' benefits to this eoun try,:etui which all our.distinguishen Statssmen tit home;enti • at enlightened foreigners, hall' alhlliett to ilt midi Warttl terms, \'e Arthur Young travelled i ll Ilin einthiettientent of the French Revolution, ~,, ti , e ,, e v .""- e t ll v t ' eii i ; • where, a melencholy demonstr ation of the evils resetting from., the want, of that 'circulation of intelligence w hi e r t their existed in England. lie .stays, 5 " his Travail; speak, jag of Bessueon, the capital of a province, large es f l aw , i - &wen -linglith counties, and where he could learn nothing of what watt going •on at Paris :—" For what the country ' 'knowa tO the' contrary, their Deputies are in the BaStile, inStaed of the Castile being razed; so the mob plunder, bata,i and destroy, itreomplete ignorance; and yet. with 'an tVcSe'shadei of darkness, - this; universal mass of ig ttOtaltei.‘!, there itt-► men every (ley in the streets, who_ , _ itt*,pittling• theltiseiveti tiff for the first nation in' Europe T. the vote* poopt,, ill , the universe l As if the • pa ,. tits& tufts's) or literary rimless .of, it capital constituted , •-:4 people ; instead of the intiersal illummatiot of know letigt+, .acting,' • by .rapid ititelligence on . teinds.,:prepared by habitual energy of reasoning, to receive, combine, arid . , , . . ceseptellend it, . . i , . T ut =mut orcuut, . • Lion or intelligence, which in England transmi ts the least I vibration orfeeling or alarm with electric sensibility from one' end 'Of the kingdom to another, and, : which unites in bonds of connection men of similar interests and Lions, has no existence in France. - Tlma.it. may be said, perhaps with truth,' that the fall' of the King, Court, Lords, Nobles, Army, Church , and Pnrliaments, is owing to a - Want of intelligence being, quickly circulated, con sequently is owing to the. very effects orthat thraldom iu which they held the people, " The Lord Chief Bi tron Alexander, his . charge, said, " The plaintiff deserves from your.hands a severe vindication of his character; and lam sure that yon Will give that vindication to him, if you are not improperly influenced by the topics which have been this day adrtressed to you, I hear. , with regret from so able and experienced a Counsel Seerlettokriqob servation that it is no offence to , repeat charges of ,this na ture if you state who the authorg of th em are; . and 'that the only parties against whom, the. party libelled can justly proceed, are the original inventors` and pnblishers'of the caluinny. I hope it is unnecessary for me to any;: that I am, as Nvell as every other Englishman, 'a friend to the freedom of the Press (the pro Verb says, SaVe me from my friends, and I will take care of my enemies); but must say, that it seems to me essential to, the freedom of the Press to check its licentiousness, and That the real enemies of the Press are those who seek to excuse and palliate its licentiousness. You may as well Open your house at night to house-breakers,' and allow them to enter and take from you your property with impunity, as'not' to . pu nish the Proprietors of, Newspapers when they are guilty of repeating such atrocions libels us thOse which have this day been brought before you. It is no justifica tion of any person who publishes that which is in jurious to the happiness of society, and to the Constitution we enjoy, to say that he only republishes that Which has already appeared in print. It appears to rue , that the re petition of such calumnious and libellous matters, is -an ,of fence both to God and to man ; and is an injury to the country, as well as to the person who undeservedly suffers rrom This is colouring with a vengeance.. Offence ;o God ,and man !i f -atrocious libels !—injurious to the . , . happiness of society,! , 7—dauee through the - periods of the venerable Judge, in a most extraordinary manner. ifutthe libel is 'only atrocious even in his eyes, ve suppose, because it is not justified. " The defendants had pleaded the ge-, neraViSsue, and had' not pura justification upon the record (he say:), a circumstance Which prevented the truth of the libel from being that day brought into question. It must, therefore, he taken as false .But every statement copied from a distant paper, which becomes the subject, of prose eution, must be atrocious in the eyes of ,thtt Chief Justice: on this principle because it is.next to impossibleior a Jour nal to justify any such statement. In the first plaCe, he does not posseK the local' knOWledge to:enable him tOdliCOver the necessary witnesses ; audio the next place, the exponee of conveying them to town, and maintaining them there for months till the cause happen to be called on, would be ruin ous. The general issue must, therefore, of necessity, be plea ded in all such trials, and the libels will always be atro cious and of in the eyes of 'God end Man. There may he cases ,tif libels published in some contemptible Ct►untry Paper,: for the sake of beiKcopied. into a 'Paper in town, or some contemptible Town Paper, tube copied into ry respectable Paper in the Cot ntry; if it,can lie made, out that such is the fact,- we are not preparpdto say that Juries should not find verdicts against..botli Myers. lint' we contend, tleu these ought only to be exceptions, and that parties onvlit to lie eontined to the original ppas for redress. . The por poSeS of justice will be completely ansWeredin thiS way ; lot it be stated, in aggrawitiop, when the libel is prosecitted, That the injury lies been' increased - by the extended circa lation'of the 'libel- .throtighour the country ! . but let diet party who has caused all theinjurt pay all the tlarnagej, flteAietrini oflthe Chiebßar'on goes to 'the coMPlete destruction of ill :that is valuable in Nowsquitnall,—,Morn ing Chronielehi.. ..et v .,, tut l: There'is a eircurnatinca flaking our trade With Sonth America which deierveg examination. • The interruption which our !commerce has sustained flout the- blooktde of , the Rio de hr' Plata, by the Brazilian squadrini, is: well known: and no small toss wilt be sustained by our mer• chants and underwriters, in consequence of the great mini. 'her` ofutiVvesseltiwhich have been, detained, in attempt, leg to proceed to•BuenoS.Ayres, and will probably be con-. &med. Of this we haVe no right.: to coMplairt,•so long as the same rule is applied to us and other nations Iruhseilmitnitely,• . But there are tivo eirctimataneei, which seem to us not alittle extraordinary ; first, American ship seem to be much more succesritil in reaching Buenos 'Ayres than `imw vessels am; iseemully, the instances' in which Atherican ebips are , detabied - 'und tarried to Brazil, for ad judication, ure wondrously . 64; 'when compared with the numberof British ships•witich share that fate. The' Atne. ricans, it is true, pay 'ley , respect to the Laws of Nations 'than we do ; the BraAlians are bound to enforce the blockade equally atrainst : and if, from any motive, they permit, 01' lit, tilt ihrriliq 106 of 'it' by one nation more than tinother,, it ought not to be any longer re 7 ; p o et Sc u, • • „.„„ , ST A T OF Tli Litt AAt A.—l f Shakspoare' litto drawn him f",ociolanescr and his Richou/s for the Kembles eno 'thelteans, by whom they tvell' first p4fortheol, his Eitsiejr for leome'Elliston, To.uchihres for his Liston of the day, his plays would have taken no permanent or general hog of the World,"and the 1100eit. of the poet reload have flied in tlie.same hoar, and gone into the same oblivion as the actors. When ,a play is written for A n actor, there can, l^, no true fueling,---on deep human nature in it; -and it vill, not bear transportation even info Ow iwxt county. Until, therefore, this fetter is broken, awl floe, who,toold de. lineate from oature, and write at the iilltoike of genius, be per mitted to tome before the public Without tranneel, 'either from the 'enpidity of Managers or the coticeii . of ;mom, it may he'eon. Healy tail that-we'llever can 'have a gtiod. Phiy—a play that Will please eitin the lowest vulgar, after the' mimic for whom it was mantifeetured has teased to act, or become tiresome in it, —Mont* Review. ,• • CANOVA AND NA POLEON—ci UtMOVa :WM ad 'Milted to the familiarity of NapOluort t he was very .tifteo at Mal ' ruoilieni with him and the ECupreior Josephine. • The warrior jested 'with the artist. ' Yon' ;hake conqiiesno on • marble,' said he ; they are harder , than mine.' ',Arid perhaps 'more durable,' an swered Canova. AWL he advisedhito, to repo** upon his trophies, to enjoy his-power, and not to Tut, a destiny to the proof which Inul been so many,times Axed by yietoryv• The F.'mperor laiughed at' the gettiptor l i fears, and allowed, '1 gong.ags if) new battles as .on make ttitw. statues.' ',Tito eau is.Vety.diNrAnto i rattlied Ca, •t an• artist onght. never .to, atop in the career of thg,fine arts. Ile ought to march from conquest to conquest.; mediocrity alohe think it has obtained: its ',object. But a thousand dangers accompany the warrior to the road of,ambition. Recollect Mins Cesar,. and a number of others.' You think, then, the Ides of of Mareh are' to be dreaded on my account ?' ' Your, death is less to he apprehended than a defeat !' do not fear either,' replies' Napoleon; both of then, would fool me as firm as your statues.' After Napoleon bad married Macii Louisa, he appeared disap- Pointed that ( ituovit bad not, complimented him on the occasion. ' Ought. Ito congratulate you,' nail the latter, for having ; di von cii fortane —Lilerinif Gazelle. 8 QUI It It El4c.---it is t 1 cutitiuB circumstance, anti 110 t. generally known, that most of those oaks which are called spon taneous, are planted by' the.sonirrel. This little embroil low per- , firmed the most essential service to the British navy. A gentle man walking one day in the woods belonging to the Duke of Beaufort, near .Tray House, in the county of Monmouth, his at tention watt diverted by wagniirrel, whirl' sat very composedly upon the ground. He stopped to nliserve lois motions; in a few ton ciente the squirrel darted to the top of a tree, beneath which he had been sitting. In an instant he was down With an acorn in his mouth, and after digging a small hole, he 'stooped down and deptetitedtbe worn ; then covering,it i he dacteti up the tree again. Ina topologic its was down again with another,: which he burrits l in 14 ° 4 "w Manner., This he continued to do AS long at the oh server th oug h t . Proloar tOowateb hint. The industry of this little animal is direetml tuthe.purpose of. securing hintagainat want !in the winter; and it is probable that Ida metuory is ,sit retentive to _enable him-to remember tico *patio which be doial,'W. every acorn ; the i u d ostr i ous little fellow, no d ou b t , loses altw ever y yow ; theta: up, and are &Anted to, supply the place of the. Party Moos it Britain, insomemeasore, debted to the. fltin' s trY aft' y, end memory of a squirrel , for suer pride, her glor hor vory exist€4ce....;-,edidintyit ~emus Courant. lova 1 LAW NTELLTGENCE. COURT .OF COMMON. PLEAS,'. Mt. 9. 4-.-•FISNii V.' CLEMENT. (Concluded from our!Paper: of Saturday.) : The Loans Clint^ Jvatica then proceeded to 'stun up the case. This was an action brought by Mr:-,Fisher,:who stated himself to he an attorney, against the defendant, Ale. `=Clement, :who repre sented himself to be the publisher of ..ft work, called Bell's Lift in London, to which. title he: observed, for the purpose, he sup. posed, of inducing putchasera, there was added the further title 0f..--‘‘ and Sporting Chrtiniete j corabining, with the news of the week, a rich repository of fashion, wit, and humour, and the in., terestiog incidents of real life." It appeared, in the course of ,the . cause, that a publication bad been sent into the World of a most infamous description— The Memoirs of Harriette. Wilson,; iii 'which there was a .most gross andindecent libel on the plaintiff. It imputed to Air., Fisher that be was in correspondence with that moat infamous woman. This was a statement altogether founded in her imagination ; yet this libel charged him, and he was then a martied.man and the father of three children, with carrying on an intercourse with sensual women, and, to such an extent, that his health was sinking under his criminal gratifies. tions. That was the original libel, tity.'whiell Mr. Fisher had, very properly, brought an action, in which lie challenged the pub fisher, Stockdale, to prove the truth of the infamous assertions he had sent forth, if he could. The cue was in the hands of the Jury, and they would decide upon it as they pleased. His Lord- ship added, that the action was not brought till the fith of No vember. ,Whether the delay was given in order that the defendant ought avail himself of the terms proposed by the plaintiff did not appear. Mr. Sergeant WILDE remarked, that the apology did not once state : that the libel was false. The Jury having applied for the p a p ers , The LOBO CHIEr JUSTICE directed them to he banded to the • Jury. They should have whatever they asked for. We LORDSHIP having diepesedlOf :corns undefended causes, left tbe Court, desiring .thaithe - Alsoaiate might take the verdict. The Jury, having retiretlior ati hour and a half, returned aver-, diet for the plaintitf..l—domageslok , coats Os, ,The Foreman of the Jury, in e?natiqueuce of the request of the Jury, begged that hia.Lordship, might be informed, that, iwoonsi deration of theapology Made in the next publication of the paper, they found a verdict for SUL,only. SI:WM - IT'S ! COURT, Minnatatx, Dec. 9. RICHARD 4sellitt sT.. X ATII4 FUN X DOCK COMPANY. The claimant waca biscuit and. gingerbresalkaker, carrying on ONO, the business of a cora chandler, at Irorigate, St. Katharine's. lie -occupied a. house and warehouse, at the low rentuf 26/. per annum, and had resided upon the spot many years. The amount of his deMand was, *pod-will and fixtures, 4,9361. Verdict, fixture.. and removal, being ; ,8611.. less than demanded. „,,, M URDER NEAR . LEATHERHEAD. Since the apprehension of William! Page, (dim ..V Cobbler. Will,' and Mary Ayres, on suspicion of having, perpetrated the late murders at Fetcham, several private examinations , have taker place at,Union T hall, in the course of which a great, number of wit- : nesses have been bought forward, and indeed no palms have been: spared by the Magistrate (R. J. Chambers, Esq.), who has been indefatigable in his exertions to bring ,to light the_, mysterious circumstances attending the m in d er e. On Saturday the, almme magiatrate, on, hie arrival at the offiee, , announeed it mild* inten-: tioli to have i public examination of the prisoners that'dey. - At eleyeu o'clock, the prisoners, Page and iii.ary Ayres were brought np to the office in a coach from Horaemonger-litne.geol; their appeamney ia evidently much altered since their confinement, particularly the female, who had got exceedingly thin and len t:Md. Page haii also suffered in his appearance. . • ' The OePositions, which tvere to thelollowing 4 , et, were read over 4,111 r. Staples? , OS ehief clerk ;....... . : , , Richard Mitchell—J . • tun a (ireenwieb pensioner, at 2e. 4d. per clay, and served 17 yeare and, upwards as carpenter's iota m the navy. .1, know the prisoner Page by the name ,of " Will the Cobbler.'", •; I, also.loiew the prisoner. , Mary Ayres. They travel to the different cotintry faits. ifiot got acquainted with them in July 14t#. ! A tveck l afterwards I ***rived my peneion, and, iii going to Farnham to look after hop:picking, ; we tented ,ttlether until the time ,tve went into Ke4t ,49p49 tblllo 11;4itti4s111144r...4ist• We ,eroseed„frOln yarn_haut to, Kent, ; and - .got , work ii,t,l4x. 11 1 0.4 torniente o .fLt,=*dlckty, '. bow Tunbridge.. , ThviPliiirlvirfAtoPPO them eight,ormine day!, end then went awny w arnd„llliave never seen them' aince until now.. There were words between prisoner 1 ..., , vti•.,04 11 ,A,.D.te? and hstweeo the measuriogrwan and, hitn,.. li. l. -impute between Mut and me wee hecatrino J., wred4,,pot .soie.,.. root. with hint to steal Potaton. We had astpai* , ,e'tert . fi* wife and I ocolpietkow, and site prisoners tha,,olw. Tb. pri-: *were' donkey carried the two tents. Two days after Bartholomew Fair ,T. yes . with, . the prisoners 'and frty,wifil'grf-Ksherscommtni.. The . prisoners had a quarrel . about „tope ,wistrthey anti , clothes, which Were to he carried to prisoner ..Ayrees mother. Page struck. . Ayres, and she said, 4( Af .t . bpd any rpopmcy9u woulti not use, me , so ill 104 you di! ;''' they had more wor se, . pful Page struck bar" again keying, "l will do for him this time, if 1 take the things over.", lie hegatt ; pe4ing up ,they Om, when pri.; cozier Ayres said, " Ontet do it by daylight,,,if you . dp it t ?twit in the dark." Some of th e things were packed up, and the prisoner Ayres went awry, saying she was going to take them to her mother., ~ . When Ayres returnedfroto.her musket:'", she said 'she had seen the old num, by whom .1.„ nfulertiOd she meant ber grandfather, of whom she anal Page : 114,0,f0n, talked before.—i She said she had been iti hi, lannte, and thet.he was very had ; and I' recollect afterwarik ai they v. , pr, , sitting 40 ' W 11, Ayres saii4 what acolpfortuble place it tyttui4,toit),o them, if the old man \Vag 'pot out of the world. Prisoner Page said in auswer, putting, up a large stick with a nob et Vie: end of it, " Ay, and this shall IN it t what do you thinkt.ufliv,Diek r I said. I, should not like more thtui one blow from .it. ...,/le said, " One blow on each aide would stop clacitiog," On another: occasion ,before' this I also 'remember we. were together on Epsom Common, . about a week before. we, were„ at :Esher., ,Page,.. whilst Ayres. was gone, to Leatherhead, said, what a comfortable place it would.beif so b it was his and he would be d-d if he would nut have We were talking togetherlabout-ther old man, and Page said; " !kiks in'his bed, and' it 'wouht be a very easy matter to put yoUr knee :upon him, attfl l Stuff the breath out of him."' It was about 10 o'clock 'at nightomd Page and I went 'across the common, and he showed me the house of the old man whti halo been murdered. He said:the old 'man.lies 'in his bed, and if lut does not soon kick the ; juicketi I kirk. iti4or him; he also said, " Don't you think; Dick, .this would be a good place tO take two horses down late the Shires, and bring two up, there is plenty of common-for them." We.aat down, and I lighted my , We. were . within sight of The !Muse; ,and talked •about the house- and orchard. I- told .hint. it• . was • useless to • think Aout murder, Wile was aa siek as he wet; represented, for that he would soon die. Page. then laid, „Dick, then you 'don't meanitn' join mc." 1 replied, " Any thing, but that; hut 'in that I wiltnot join you." Ilium- did steal any thing with him, .exelpt .ft few initatoes. Wben:l refused; joining hint in murdering the old , man, and:stealing horses afterwards, :awl have before 'stated, we'quar relied, and went back, to our tents i,oind the next , day. we struck our tents, and as we were going along the:road to.,srune We, Page cut ,a large holly,,stielt, and showedit,to me, and said,• 0 . What do you think of this, Dick?" Ayres and my wife were going shop, pings. and land. the prisoner. Page vat Amen by the title of a wood; and,. upon Ayres comiug :up, she said,- " Tlatiow Atilt ateay, it is had hick to carry a. holly stick." . My wife and Ayres .were talking together ovlteit ;Page, aaid, " that don't you mean to stand true to me?" I said no, I would not, I would have nothing to do with no -such work. We then went on into Kent hop picking. One •night in August, after Kinston fair, we pitched our tents in the green lane near Feteham, within 30 or 40 yards of ths,old man's house, about ten &clock at night, anti were off by three o'clock the next morning. - Page, before starting, said, " Caudidlk, I came here to kill the old man au,l woman, because 'the old man hat made, a will:lesving all to Haynes, anti none to my Mary," ' , II:told: him that Ayres was not married to him; anti caked hint ltow.he could gain any thing by , He be gan thou swearing my, Litter oaths, and said, " Dick, do you mean to go with to e. '. ..,I said I. would have nothing to do with it. My wife began banging round me, and said I should not have any thing to do with it. Prisoner Mary Ayres was also present., Page has frequently talked of-murdering Mary's grandfather i n my heaving' more than twenty. or thirty times.: 1 first heard of the 11111rdetil On 'Monday, the 23d of Octoberlast, at 'Tunbridge, when taken before. the mig,-- , strate there. I was met ha whine on : f. , iuritlay by a person tointeelylettersoot who asked ute i f I knew a .person Called Cobbler Will ? T told; him' I liell,;ved I' did. He then asked miff I knee,' Mary :Ayres. • I told him I !lateen her, I , , time or ten. le anti the next morning came to me again, and I toll' hint that Will and I n,t I, eu snpping together at Mr. P*ttendejf,. The depositions of Mitchell's wife Were then read, but enntalued nothing material in addition of her husband; I' age could prove where he was on the night of the murder. llc herd entered into a long statement to account for his time fr ,cat the hanre 014! Alichaelmas . 4 4 y last, lip to the period a his apprilictisii m , by which it appeared, that he, in compOY w ill, Maly Ay '4,, it man called by the nick-name of e , Will' itt" and his wife's brother, called " Dumpling George," and Robert Ilignell and his wife, iuhl with a young Woman from Cio,labitini; that they went from Andover toVeyhill together on the Monday morning before the fair, where they stayed until Saturday morn ing, the 14th of October, when he (Page), Mary Ayres, a man and a woman named Murphy, and a man called Michael, went from Weyhill to Marlborough ; that they left that place on the Sunday morning:. that, he and Murphy fought at Weyhill, consequence of It few words; that, in the tight his nose bled, and his jacket was altreist all over blood. , (This .was to ac count for stains' of blood, upon his flannel , jaeket 'found in his pack when apprehended by, Grasemith.) He fought in that jacket, and that " Dumpling 'George" was present all the time. He then entered into a long detail' of the pines he frivelled through hi company with 'and his Wife, until he' heard of the murders, which. vas at Maelow.fair, and that was on • Sunday night, where Mary . heard ;; that Isar . grandfather..was killed., Mary told him _that a red-haired.. girl had told her of it. They then went front Mario* . fair to. Oakinghant fair, Where they stopped two nights. From thence they proceeded to .Eghini. This was 'on the 4th 'ef November, where Miry left him to go to her mother's to handle about her grandfather-.whe.; ther he was hurt. He said that he bad first ; heconie.'aconainted with Mitchell at Kingston fair, and they continued tenting toge ther until they got a job at hopping at Mr. Pattenden's, at Verne*: etreet, Kent, and that he left there on. Account of the measurer and him quarrelling. lie said Murphy, tore the cuffs of his fitin. itil jacket while fighting, and that Mary cut them off. At this stage of the investigation, a pair of pincers were produced, which Were supposed to have been: the , instrument that the murders were perpetrated with. Upon examining the pincersqit was ob served that a spot, apparently produced by blood, was open them. Page, upon looking at them, said, " There was no blood upon the piscere, if they are mine, unless it was put on by the con stable, if be did take them out of my kit." He then proceeded— Mitchell has several times, when we have been tenting at Leather* head and Dorking together, said, that he should do something be tween that and Michaelmas, as he must have money. He once said that he knew where there was an old miser, and he must have sonic money, but lie did not say hoW or which way, or of whoM he was going to have it. • He•never proposed to go and murder an.oht miser, Weyhill fair began on Wednesday, the 11th of Oetplxtr. 'I was at the fair on, that day, with a little gray horse for sale. • I had it there on the Thursday and Friday, ridiag backwards and forwards till three or' four o'clock In the afternoon. I went into the fair on Thersday about I I o'clock in the morning, and' stayed: there, until three. or four or live o'clock, uatil, it was dusk, as long es there were, any horses about the fair. Ruhert Digneh and Dumpling Pane were there 'at the same time.' • 'Mary Ayres and rig' . s, wife went to the fair together. Pig and Dumpling Geolie'remairiad 'with nit in the tents. Mary Ayres came hack 'about - 10 'o'clock. I was lying in the tent by myself when she came back. Pies wife came lick with Mary.. I both maw and heard her. I never rode my gray posy above five or six miles at a time. lie would he dens up in ten miles. f would be. upou my oath that . neither I nor Mary were at Leathei head fair. All the three diyi there were horses for sale in the fair. lt is not true what Richard Mitchell has stated. 1 never saw Akehursee cottage in.my I Piave heard, Mary speak of her grandfather. I have heard her say he was very ill, and that her wilier told• her, I never spoke to Mary's father above two or three timeii,' when I have been to' the house. Mary has • been with site three year.' lest June. 'l, never tented in the Green-have, as stated by Afitchell, in all my life. I can't say but what I have beaten Mary at titucs, taut that was when I was in liquor. Mitchell and I never had any quar-, rel. It is unknoWn to nie if ever I had. I never heard Sophia Mitchell and Mary have an angry word. Ayree hail no 'objection to give an account where they It ad been, both jirior to and after the morders. Her statement agreed with Page's, as to the ditl.rent places they bad travelled to, and the fight that tool. place between Mupby and 'Page at Marlborough ; that site first beset of the murders from a young woman who trends the country. She came from Oakinghant to Egham with 1 Came to my mother's, to • see myself righted.; .:Page wished ice to do so ) , as the young vomen said I was charged With it; and on my way through Weyhtridge I was taken by the constable.— The first time I saw Mitchell' Was a day or two, after Kingston (akin, August, on Leatherhead-commoti; it Was a.Wet 'night. I saw them iiptio 'at Ep4oin fair, and we' Icontinneil together until we went,. into• Kent, hepping. I have heard: Mitchell say several tittles On Esher r eommoneod.Dorkieg, that he koew of en old mister; and that he bad no &MIA he had some Morley, and if we liked lie would go with Us and ct ack his ken(rmaning rob the hence.) WU asked him where ;ewes, and he said near Dorking. I nefer heird iin talk ofkillingthe old man. • I cut .off ,the cuffs of the flannel jacket, becitotethey,hong down below his, coat, and jacket.' , --.! Page had the.jaeket out when he fiat& at, Merlhorongh,: and that was - the way she supposed the r hlteal time upon, it. I dOn't behave 'there .Is' blood upon the pair' 'of pineerC;. If' it it Litese-sbing-" , it • a rust. I never , saw my grandfather'e House store trevAledwith Bihl, but I, know clue hoose, thdughi earmot say whether it is a tiled or a thetelied house. I never .tente d in the Green-lane, nor any other place near Fetcham parish. We rented lay ouraelves twke on ,Bookham-coMMOm Mitehell leni`ed with us on f.sher4o' mtnon, Faruhant, Dorking, anti' nutty' other places, whielt cannot recollect. On • the' Thursday night of Weyhill Fair, va g e. 4 o I were at. the only pliblie,lieuso on the hill. lie was there,: until between nine and t.l &clock a 4 night. X was there until between 10 and 11, o r It may, be lat. 4-. • The Waiter gave me some halfpence . to get a glass gin that evening. - I went .back to my tent with fig's wife. There was no one' in:mar tents but my Will. When,..at the public:-house there were some Insn• who mitt* sheep, drinking with Bill and myself. When Ayres' deposition was 'taken, the 'Magistrate strongly. abised the prisoners to lose no time in Kviniing for the ptranni above named, in Whose edropany they asserted they had been yelling before and after WerYhill-titir, to strengthen their tes timony, , • ;.! ,e , • • ; • . . , . Page.replted,!' We can't bring forwent these people, &five have; got no Money'; besides, it is uncertain where they are noW, ast they are trio-opera like mirselves.". ' - • Mr. CkitAturit observed; that heiehould take care and have those Witnesses in theinbehalf of whoniAhey spoke, brought for went if they WWI, tO* found in England. The officers, after trevetling:mani of miles, in thv eourse• of itybielt they experieneed Many difficulties, at heath sitcektleiV to collecting throw persotoi whose testimony *us so important to ieve iti f the in vestigation of the murders. . Tiff PIIE,DIWANIENT.—‘" , enny said a country • . . J . " woman to her Wixom daughter, during one, of the warm mornings. of last summer, " Jenny, yell awa to the town and bring hams a bottle o' harm wi' rm." It wii'the preaching days with jenny, stul having 4 ‘Arysted to meet her joe," she 'nodded au assent to •Ittr Mother's yonimandi with 4;beam, in her eye that bespoke as tpuch of! !love as phediettee. . Haying accordingly lostuo time in dirplAy her chartne to the'best advantage, she plunged n quart bottle in a mong the ettutiriee which never failed to ticCupy the Ca pacious receptacle denominated, hy country - damsels, a side pocket, and so smartly tript her midi &town, that she was half way on her return, before the sun had reached his meridian. Whether it was that Jenny had been seized with More than ordinary feel iege of devotion, or that the wily god, being in a frolicksorne humour, had . resolved, on playing off out of hbritranks on her we shall not pretend to say, hut , rcertain ! it• is, that Jenny, on bending her way homewards, Was, just passing the kirk as she got it glinting of her joe stepping into*. • Regardless of the well corked bottle Of harm, Jenny instinctively pursued the same course, =end set herself down beside a blowsy wife from Dollar, who had travelled a dozen miles ithat morning to hear the word in its purity, if not to retail it still .more •delectably,• on hecreturn, to the'llrowthy gossips. of her pariah... Jenny had scarcely time to look about her, till the vacant seat beside her waS noeupled'hy au equally:ponderous personage, in the shape of a 'terse eouperte wife front.the west. Had Jenny been thinking More of her mother, and lestrof her sweetheart, it is likely it would have occurred to her, that so smart a walk, and so warm a day, were sufficient to have roused to a state of rebellion inure quiescent matter than that which dangled by her side, and in this way avoided 'bringing its beat to the provoking temperature induced by her own person 011 the one side, and the hotse-eouperts wife on the other. Be these things as they may, the heat which had commenced to sealJenuy's of the previous evening. eyes peaceful slumbers, acted so powerfully nu the turbulitut properties of the harm,: that tm explosion was inevitable. 'Soon after Jenny had taken her seat, the bottle popt its neck out, as if resolved on tantalizing a thirsty, cobbler, who sat directly in front, s t , l j e i r ee iii t ' ss i4 i i" to ' the battle , as if anxious to followed a fair por sTuhefferoin4ll,Qatyee l i i i t e tle ha f d ro w m a inlet to day light. The ter he ii h fi e e tte r r ep a o c i tua o it i t i te t d fle t w vith the its o co rk r i ltentA --- when with h q pi t l--both pursuing their course so di rectly towards the unsuspecting optic, that they faily ,closed tits rk poor a son smartly and striking the nose of a knight of the shuttle,'roused him whilst • gazing obliviously at the The kirk , we,, all i n a blurs--and "every mother's 'son, aye and daughter too, with out-stretched neck to itsceftain the motif.... b us eey," exclaimed the blowsy wif e o' p o ll 4t , 4, s h e 's pow onto a' my - e h te o."- f , Preserve os,-if she !mina stitkit the mints f:efbatiCrnidsLtilt:'s only t er ," whispered the horse-cooper's wife. Jenny, as soon as she discovere d t h e cause of all this confusion, made leer thumb take dace of the cork—but unluckily proving either two large . or two I • hat nt oecationallY Made its escape, epuriodailufcgi::ass(plerieNr? tohelnttrefrthat kept eanteroptuonv time with the doleful' ditty Of poor Jenny, as she Iturridly . moved off, s'zelsini- ing, " preeerve me, wee eVtt 4 IVOM4tI ill tic ft prodassatneut".•—• stirlil4' Jon - mi t • DEISM. MR. EDITOR—I read in your Journal this evening a letter oa Deism, from your correspondent " No Deist." lam of opinion th►t Mr. Manic was very wrong in introducing the' petition of Dr• Taylor to the House of Commons, and I think the author of the letter in question equally wrong in publishing what ba bat ilolle. Bigots are no more worthy of toleration than Deists. • - 1 am, Sir, very respectfully, your obedient servant, John's Cafe.-house, Dec. 7. • NO SECTARIAN.: POLICE INTELLIGENCE. @ L r', • , . THAMES-OFFICE. —In our report , of this day week, mentioned the suspicious Circumstances ,under which a hat -10 had been brought to this Office, containing among other thingt, two Woody shirts. The young man, Robertson; ,wie food 11 Evans, and brought to the office yesterday. He stated that he resideJ with his mother, in Upper Chapman-street, Cannon-stree er t• road, and being a ffl icted with a severe inflammation, he Was und the necessity of applying leeches ; and that the quantity of bi d which Ike lost in consequence of the application, left hie s hirts in such a state, that, from delicacy, he was averse to give that out to be wished, so he thought the best plan was to huddle tho 4 into the hat-box, and throw them over Loudon Bridge, which he did on the evening upon which they were found ; he cut ho s t i tials out of one shirt, but, in his hurry , forg ot to cut them d the other articles. The tear iu one of the shirts he bad done himself. He denied any knowledge of the blood on Allimil°r" stairs. This explanation appearing satisfactory, be was told tint he was at liberty to depart ; and the hit-box and its contentswg" ordered to be burned. MEETINGS OF CREDITORS, LONDON DIARY, NVEnstsuam, Dsc. IS ! Dentith, J., Liverpool—George, Livirp6ol- 1 * Eveleigh, J., Manebester—Star, Manchester... 4l • Gibbous, T., jun., Wells—Red Linn, Vakenhant-. 4 Griffith., T., Abergele—Cr own, Denbigh- 1 I Haworth, J., Manchester—Star, 31ancbeeter---1 1 ' • Hobson, T., Carlisle--Grapes, Carlisle-4 1 Lane, C., Oxford—Lamb and Flag, Oxford --I I Laird, D., Carlisle—Bush, Carliale-4 1 Martin, J., seu., Bath—Angel, Bethr—l. • ' Matthews, J., St. Philip, and Jacob, Gloutvoterahin'-11"11116' Bristol 1Y Wolter— I 0 Mitch's% 1%, Leicester-'—Rutlad n Hotel, Alan _ ..... . ___ i l arriYullib, . G., Crag, near liacelestild---Whit- Nhester-9 ~, Pearson, F.,. Sheffiel4.—Tentine, Sliefftela -11 Taylor, J., Goicar—L n,g's Head, liuddersfi ald—ti Powell, A., Mareli," Tile of Ely—Crown, St. lye Ward,' W., Leech- - . Court-homes, Lods—l I Wignall, C., Liverpool—George, Liverpool -1 Windsor and Co., Manchester—White's, Maindisster..-10 i LIVERPOOL COMMERCIAL INTELLTGE." E. 'Pt A NTATiON SVGA K. The tales amount to eadly 400 hiuls ; there are very few parcels offering, but the not appear anxious to purchase at the present prices: bold," above, nothing has been dune in Sugars, excepting 170 I '4 l waged white Bengal, sold by auction at 675. 6d. to 735. lr In West ludia Molasses nothing has been (loin!. Abek o i '• tierces clean Jamaica Coffee, good and tine ordi ol y, tav : beon sold at rather better prices. Cocoa and Ginger rr - j r dull. A email lot of Pimento has been sold at 94d. per ib' business done in Rum is limited ; prices remain tirw. ;„„ COTTON. -Wethielalay it became very brisk. —The are chiefly. id the'ditalirs and spinners, who have taken freely 01 16 1; rican description*, at the full qtiotations of last weal!, toll fl e e] )' id to id. per lb adianet has. been given on the' prieti-4 P . ;; owl Mobile._ The sales amount to 17,500 4111.-4 99° , , 13° ,4‘1; ordinary to fair, tiid to 6-id, good fair to goodi t " 6 41 to 2,360 'Orleans 60 to Bid • 3,9110 Mobile and Alba " to -°9l; s 7d .40 Sea Island 120 tdls4 ; 200 0 s y ta il it r i l ec i l a di t tto 7 1_,. d 350 P B ' s r ib ua ia wb B u cl eu FilyP tian . 7 l tl to 84; 200 Demerara 841 to 9141 30 r_rl t j. t a o t 9 10 ti kil ; 1 t s o o lO x id in ;; ) 270 Maranhao t. 01,4,70 6 it; 490 Carthagons 6d ; 930 Sniat Sid to tid; Abmit 350 bags American have bettti taken on sOrrulat' ° " arrivals are 3,067 hugs.: - —her jo' Im e po loa rte i, ( . . e l i .. n ,,. to ß L y iv i e v rp eise onl ; f fro rm m n t s loo N fAb oty y ttet ori :c — irolicabing ` ton - Vistinilto Quebec, 2 Monte Video, 1 l'enang; 1,..0p0rt0. I Leghorn, and 1 Alexant_irt;:indis iss o i ; iittittr,Detnerare , 1 ti 7 ; Coffee 180; puns; R. 04 attignis, 95 Mule ; Atolassco 157 p uns; _ _ on _, _ brio ;- Peppex 1513 puns ; gt.'' Pun" A"ftiniiii,ll9to ballbe:,,iu pilws Tar, A tuerican, 3189 brio; Cotton, We't 569 hales ; To bacco -Egyptian, 2278 bake ; Ditto, United whot , ForeiV 434 Idols ; Rice ,170 casks ;. lloor .180: ri o g v . m vool 1.479 bolo 50 brie, 8701,_qrs ;. Topentilvt , 1 0 ,. 6 .„: A 100 tees ; Bark 12 casks ; Tallow 742 casks ; 01 7 00 ,1, 4 ; gua Wood 90 tons; Cochineal 15 ; Arg Cow and Ox, 4266 ;.Ditto , Il orse 2000. , 00 „,' • SAL ES ADVP.RTISED. Cooo ;,4 .! . 111VitsDAYY, Dm. 14.-400 tierce4 I.)enierar .Bags Ditto ; 60 Tops Ottk 4 ittritnto LAST witix. (.I:iISNtRY CORN Dtn.IIKET:., b+~~' Wheat. 3siieY ~::., to c Per Quarter Andovtr path NM ...•••••••••WF i. tt) sti --• 54 t' 3 2 48 '5 7 53 .... is, to st - 39 3t; 44 . 31 42 34 4 5 40g •46 —• , 45 40 StV • 4 44 IQ 488 36 48 43 4g 48 44 47 4C ' 44 32 38 46 30 40 30 4,1 40 44 4 44) 40 3.7 41 38 40., Rridgew4ter Car Hilly. Daventry PMicaator Otani ham Herb am Leed, Lincoln Louth V.W.1.0.04:0:. 12a .n r i kt1'llarbe - ro'.. • Newcastle Newitrk, R quisei ilandwich ?4,, _ 1 4 4 •••• Spits y 31. India . la Ud1M.....11.0 Tatoop uppitypini uxbnage Winchester Yannouth Ybrk - Per Bushel: IttAmin Chiliehhon HareOf a ' N'eweestle (Steal). Nortbal*rtuu«... Penrith Shrewsbury Sofrord Weriiek Per Boll: Barnardouitle I)arlington Durham ..••••••••••• Stanhope Woleingh3D! 68 ,58 &s et s. d. s. d. 70 84 00 0 7 6 9 0 6 6 70 72 7 7 6 9 9 , 4 9K 7.0 7 $ 0 0 8' 9l 9 90 08 70 $ 1,4 $ II 0 16 0 14 0 15 0 IS 0 16 0 13 0 13 130' 1411 14 0 10;0 OM sold 5 - 12 38 10 40 14 0. 3 6 3R -- VI 3 6 38 36 1 4 h. d. s. d. 56 66 00 0 0 S 0 4d'so . 6Q 0 I a 4,0 00 60 70 6 70 56 50 ;5.5 66 [0 0 )* O 1106 116 70' 0 1 0 6 00 W 0 00 00 10'0 1116 . 1 INTL... , A IWrutts Ausutity of Copp* raw Produce"' Quantity of line Cop per Amount of Sale, £11,172 11 Is &L.-4 41 6.9 "" 5i 48 48 58 4 # 44 IO 64 ea b 8 tO • • ~,. le 4. • a+ 4 7 43 ~. • ~n • '~. I i , , 53 t ri b 6 1.0 .„. 191 46. 45 psd 49 t o 56 ••• 50 au . 36 / 44 .66 .** 1107 00,6 V .;tr i gt Sti ;56 41 7:10 :0. 51 04 S 44 0 04 o'9 la 10%1 Oat is an ito (1-.• 83 100 6 ' O6 ll/ a 3 u o 0 0 ie 0 00 0 oo 00 o 9 u 0 1$ 8,1 06 0 1$ 10 9 0 0' p 0 0 .• 0 P, 1094 0116 0 )10 n 0 0,0 g v " - 0 g 1)0° U -0 0 C `l°lalek : ..l .... 4414- 1 hat '1110"-- .... di ...... . ............... ... ......... terwe • - ss Sio :18 $ 1" • m , AA .1 tit .90 90 so — 40 96 V 6 A by . s.d. „ 0 , U © g AAu sa if O fi f" * 0 3 t o j 3 1 1 7 0 10 ? 5a." s 0 o 4 6 3 6pi l t - , 6 SO ! 16 n 70. , u 4'4 991 gutvis. b, l b ' the W a t er iog . liptel, FA1 10 1)0.$ of a danghter. • . ' 5 4 L 24 of Sohn Alexander 11,1111,4', ;re -street , Portland-plare. . .., ,------ ...,.._____•_______...-----.- MARRIED. a/00 ,14 On the 7th inst., at All Souls, Langhant-place , Mr. F. ''',„ = i OF Stevenage, surgeon, third ton o f the Rev. Pr. Mose",rd Little Ealitig, to Charlotte, only child of late Nathaniel " . !insult,' Esq. of John-street. -.---------:—‘> • ' ' '" DIED. . 1 D oe On Wednesday, the 6th instant, Robert Aviator, Et.T - tan, Somencet, in the Gaul year o f hi s age. • g , -On t h e - sth inst., in London, Mies llarriett Priscilla 00‘-' the 17th year of her age. to& On the 6th inst., at 52, Mark-huke 41 6 '. Joho 314Artburi Co years in the haute of-Alssara.Johes,,al4 04*k C4ri* ti ' aj)4 Ott the otli iostapt, at Alarchionesa Mario Sion*, Op the 7th instant, the of a daughter, in Dfvotiahi Ovi49, 03kt Printed 041 Put4i4ed bY 0040. - pre.'